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/ 13 December 2006
It starts off quite innocuously. A few zits on the chin. The tiniest of tics in the left eye. But by July 4 there’s no mistaking the symptoms of full-blown festivalitis. Aching joints, stomach-churning dreams of cultural sushi – stuff to die for, or from, depending on fitness levels – plus a tendency to repeat […]
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/ 13 December 2006
The sexy, stylish Femi Kuti truly is his father’s son, writes Matthew Krouse.
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/ 13 December 2006
There is something vague and remote about Rosas in Drumming. There’s no doubt about it – the meandering can only have been inspired by the movement of a mobile swinging in the wind. Rosas is an odd experience – we South Africans are so accustomed to performance that is laden with meaning that it is […]
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/ 13 December 2006
Music Steel-pan supremo Andy Narell will present two workshops on percussion and the art of drumming, on September 4 at the Mega Music Warehouse and September 6 at the Funda Centre, Soweto. Dutch jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans will hold a seminar on trumpets and jazz music on September 18 at the Mega Music Warehouse. Scandinavian […]
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/ 13 December 2006
A Paris-based theatre troupe will bring culture to the streets of Soweto during Arts Alive. Luvuyo Kakaza reports.
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/ 13 December 2006
Dance ’99 mines a rich and defiant strain of contemporary local choreography, reports Charl Blignaut.
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/ 13 December 2006
<i>Love and Green Onions</i> is a rich musical feast enlivened by great performances and some fine, infectious songs, writes Guy Willoughby.
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/ 13 December 2006
By 2030, 1,2-billion people in developing countries will belong to a global middle class, up from 400-million today. The increase in wealth will make income inequality and environmental pressures more acute, predicts the World Bank in a report titled <i>Managing the Next Wave of Globalisation</i>.
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/ 13 December 2006
“We are not the Third World. Africa was here first, so we are the First World. People everywhere are interested in the culture here,” says Vincent Mantsoe, 1996 winner of the Standard Bank young choreographer’s award. And he should know. He’s the obvious icon of South African contemporary dance and has just returned from a […]